VAF member Robert Mellin has been named to the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador for his design, research, and heritage conservation work in the province.

In January 2018 he received a Lt. Governor’s award for his design of a private residence in Middle Arm, Newfoundland.

He is currently working on the restoration of the the Ned Keough homestead in Calvert, Newfoundland (image below), a house featured in Professor Gerald L. Pocius’s book A Place to Belong: Community Order and Everyday Space in Calvert, Newfoundland.

Charles S. Keefe was an important Colonial Revival architect of the early 20th century specializing in middle-class houses and outbuildings on upper-class estates. His designs received wide publication in professional journals and popular magazines, but since his death in 1946 he has fallen into obscurity. In CHARLES S. KEEFE (1876-1946) COLONIAL REVIVAL ARCHITECT IN KINGSTON AND NEW YORK, William Rhoads, a leading scholar of the Colonial Revival, restores Keefe to his rightful place among tradition-minded architects who were dismayed by the rise of modernism. This richly illustrated volume gives a full and colorful account of Keefe's professional and personal life.

Kingston Wm. Heath, Professor and Director Emeritus of the graduate program in Historic Preservation at the University of Oregon has had his article, "Towards a Humanist Approach to Historic Preservation," accepted for the forthcoming special edition on Folklore and Preservation in the Journal of American Folklore.

VAF member Henry K. Sharp publishes book on the industrial revolution in Maryland.

Most architectural historians who have addressed the inception and development of the Industrial Revolution in America trace its beginnings to Samuel Slater‘s 1793 cotton-thread mill, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Yet the unsung history of another place, Maryland's Patapsco River Valley, offers an alternate narrative. The Chesapeake region’s transition from tobacco cultivation to wheat brought about a significant regional transformation in architecture. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, a generation before Slater’s own ground-breaking accomplishment, large-scale production and international marketing of flour propelled Baltimore from a backwater village to a ramifying city. The most extensive of the merchant milling communities forming an industrial corona around this rapidly urbanizing port was Ellicotts’ Mills, founded by the Quaker Ellicott brothers in 1771. This book highlights the Ellicotts’ story, and situates their prescient conception of a factory town in historical context. In so doing, Dr. Sharp offers us a more complete and nuanced understanding of the architecture of America's industrialization.

Arroyo, Felix Labrador, and Koldo Trápaga Monchet, “Forestry, Territorial Organization, and Military Struggle in the Early Modern Spanish Monarchy,” Environmental History 23(2), April 2018. Pg. 318-341.

Chen, Ningning, “Secularization, Sacralization And The Reproduction Of Sacred Space: Exploring The Industrial Use Of Ancestral Temples In Rural Wenzhou, China,” Social and Cultural Geography 18(4), 530-552.

Clark, Justin T. City of Second Sight: Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Dubcovsky, Alejandra. “When Archaeology and History Meet: Shipwrecks, Indians, and the Contours of the Early-Eighteenth-Century South,” Journal of Southern History 84(1), February 2018. Pp. 39-68.

Esterrich, Carmelo. Concrete and Countryside: The Urban and Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

Geiser, Reto. Giedion And America: Repositioning the History Of Modern Architechture. Zurich: Gta Publishers, 2018.

Osman, Michael. Modernism’s Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America. Buell Center Books in the History and Theory of American Architecture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

Park, Sun-Young. Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

Piazzoni, Maria Francesa. The Real Fake: Authenticity and the Production of Space, New York: Fordham University Press, 2018.

Precht, Jay. “Coushatta Homesteading in Southwest Louisiana and the Development of the Community at Bayou Blue,” Journal of Southern History 84(1), February 2018. Pp. 113-138.

Ryan, Zoe, ed. As Seen: Exhibitions that Made Architecture and Design History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.

S. He, “Exploring the fringe-belt phenomenon in a Sino-Portuguese environment: the case of Macao,” Journal of Urban Morpology 22(1), 2018.